University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
Offending Women
Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their children, who are serving terms in alternative, community-based prisons-a type of facility that is becoming increasingly...
Building Home
Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Building Home is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation‘s political economy. It is another part urban history, since the extraordinary...
by Adam Hochschild
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun...
The Great Basin
A Natural Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environmental...
Gardening with a Wild Heart
Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Judith Lowry's voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural design, and plant/animal interactions. This lyrical and articulate mix of the practical and the poetic...
The Self-Help Myth
How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Can philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this eye-opening analysis, Erica Kohl-Arenas bores deeply into how these issues play out in California’s Central Valley, which is one of the wealthiest agricultural production regions in the world and also home...
An Uncommon Friendship
From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village’s Jewish inhabitants and taken to Auschwitz, where his whole family...
Los Angeles in the 1930s
The WPA Guide to the City of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the...
Everett Ruess
His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such...
The Essential Mario Savio
Speeches and Writings that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, California, was pivotal in shaping 1960s America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent...
The Life of Paper
Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged letter correspondence to remake themselves—from bodily integrity to subjectivity and collective and spiritual being. Exploring the evolution of racism and confinement...
The Paradox of Preservation
Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Point Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape, with dairy and beef ranching, fishing, and oyster farming; yet, since 1962 it has also been managed as a National Seashore. The Paradox of Preservation chronicles how national ideals about what a park “ought to be” have developed...
Buddha Is Hiding
Refugees, Citizenship, the New America
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant,...
by Martha Biondi
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed...